Apologies for my lack of posts, but I've got a very good reason.
I've been looking at a whole lot of domes.
I'm currently trying to figure out the finer points of my postgraudate dissertation. I went through a few ideas; some too big and some too small, before realising that I should focus on something I love absolutely.
Strangely enough, that absolute love was of domes. Domes, cupolas, vaults, big hunking chunks of stone and glass above our heads, material and immaterial. I suppose it seems like a strange area of architecture to focus on, but I think that some of these pictures may make it easier for you to see things from my point of view (which is, incidentally, looking up).
The following pictures are a selection by David Stephenson, a wonderfully talented architectural photographer who has produced two of my favourite books: Visions of Heaven & Heavenly Vaults.

The Pantheon, Rome.

Sant'Andrea delle Valle, Rome.

Duomo, Padua.

Basilica di Superga, Turin.

Val-du-Grace, Paris.

Sant'Ivo alla Sapienza, Rome.

St. Benedict's Chapel, Plasy.

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